[CMake] ctest -j N behavior

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Jun 8 14:25:02 EDT 2009


Daniel Blezek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   Our valgrind checks consume a lot of time, so I was looking into 
> running them in parallel on our 8 core test box.  If I run
> 
> ctest –T MemCheck
> 
> All is well.  However, if I run:
> 
> ctest –T MemCheck –j 2
> 
> CTest runs the tests, but without valgrind.  I’m just guessing that 
> ctest isn’t able to do more than run tests in parallel?  If there is 
> some way to do this, please let me know.
> 
> Best regards,
> -dan
> 
ctest -j needs some work.   We should be working on it in the next three 
months or so, I will keep the list posted as I have new stuff to try.

-Bill


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